With the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoasset, but today there are over 800 and counting, including ether, ripple, litecoin, monero, and more. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry insiders shows you how to navigate this brave new blockchain world - and how to invest in these emerging assets to secure your financial future.

4 out of 5 stars

Best book I've found so far on the crypto industry

By
Anon
on
08-04-18

The Bitcoin Standard

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

By:
Saifedean Ammous

Narrated by:
James Fouhey

Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
103

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4.5 out of 5 stars
89

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.

5 out of 5 stars

All you need to know about Bitcoin

By
Anonymous User
on
15-08-18

The Starfish and the Spider

The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

By:
Ori Brafman,
Rod Beckstrom

Narrated by:
Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
41

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4.5 out of 5 stars
27

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4 out of 5 stars
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If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.
The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: "spiders", which have a rigid hierarchy, and "starfish", which rely on the power of peer relationships.

4 out of 5 stars

Cool but bias exploration of decentralisation

By
joonsang
on
19-11-18

How Evolution Explains Everything About Life

From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory

By:
New Scientist

Narrated by:
Mark Elstob

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
3

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago, Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. In
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life, leading biologists and
New Scientist take you on a journey of a lifetime, exploring the questions of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke and how it got kick-started.

Blockchain Revolution

By:
Don Tapscott,
Alex Tapscott

Narrated by:
John Chancer

Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10

The definitive audiobook on how the technology behind bitcoin and cryptocurrency is changing the world - majorly expanded with new material on cryptoassets, icos, smart contracts, digital identity and more. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology behind Bitcoin. But it is much more than that. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access but which no single person controls. It enables companies and individuals to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. It is cryptographically secure but fundamentally open. And soon it will be everywhere.

With the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoasset, but today there are over 800 and counting, including ether, ripple, litecoin, monero, and more. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry insiders shows you how to navigate this brave new blockchain world - and how to invest in these emerging assets to secure your financial future.

4 out of 5 stars

Best book I've found so far on the crypto industry

By
Anon
on
08-04-18

The Bitcoin Standard

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

By:
Saifedean Ammous

Narrated by:
James Fouhey

Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
103

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
89

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
89

When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.

5 out of 5 stars

All you need to know about Bitcoin

By
Anonymous User
on
15-08-18

The Starfish and the Spider

The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

By:
Ori Brafman,
Rod Beckstrom

Narrated by:
Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
41

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Story

4 out of 5 stars
26

If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.
The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: "spiders", which have a rigid hierarchy, and "starfish", which rely on the power of peer relationships.

4 out of 5 stars

Cool but bias exploration of decentralisation

By
joonsang
on
19-11-18

How Evolution Explains Everything About Life

From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory

By:
New Scientist

Narrated by:
Mark Elstob

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
3

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago, Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. In
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life, leading biologists and
New Scientist take you on a journey of a lifetime, exploring the questions of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke and how it got kick-started.

Blockchain Revolution

By:
Don Tapscott,
Alex Tapscott

Narrated by:
John Chancer

Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10

The definitive audiobook on how the technology behind bitcoin and cryptocurrency is changing the world - majorly expanded with new material on cryptoassets, icos, smart contracts, digital identity and more. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology behind Bitcoin. But it is much more than that. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access but which no single person controls. It enables companies and individuals to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. It is cryptographically secure but fundamentally open. And soon it will be everywhere.

5 out of 5 stars

Great book

By
Mr. B. K. Stanley
on
12-01-19

Life After Google

The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

By:
George Gilder

Narrated by:
Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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3.5 out of 5 stars
16

You can say goodbye to today's Internet, New York Times best-selling author George Gilder says. Soon the current model of aggregated free content populated with "value-subtracted" advertising will die a natural deat. In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money.

4 out of 5 stars

Starts off so well but implodes

By
Olly Buxton
on
13-09-18

Bitcoin

The Future Of Money?

By:
Dominic Frisby

Narrated by:
Dominic Frisby

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
66

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5 out of 5 stars
60

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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In 2008, while the world was busy panicking about the global financial crisis, a computer programmer going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto posted a message on an out-of-the-way mailing list. 'I've been working on a new electronic cash system,' he said. Nobody seemed to care. ‘It might make sense to get some just in case it catches on,’ he suggested. How right he was. What he had programmed would become the world’s most famous alternative currency – Bitcoin.

5 out of 5 stars

Easy to understand, yet technically spot on

By
Simon
on
11-09-17

The Business Blockchain

Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

By:
William Mougayar,
Vitalik Buterin

Narrated by:
Christopher Grove

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
167

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4 out of 5 stars
148

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4 out of 5 stars
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Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency, making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software.

3 out of 5 stars

Good summary, not too much more...

By
Ash
on
25-01-17

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

By:
Michael J. Casey,
Paul Vigna

Narrated by:
Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet’s next big thing: the blockchain. Many of the 'legacy systems' once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task; big banks have grown more entrenched, privacy exists only until the next hack, and credit card fraud has become a fact of life. However, there is a way past all this - a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionise our economy: the blockchain.

This four-in-one bundle of FinTech Publishing's mind-blowing cryptocurrency series is all you need to learn all you need to get started on a lucrative path to earning big bucks trading cryptocurrency.

1 out of 5 stars

Buy a proper book on the subject instead.

By
Paul Tansey
on
19-10-17

The Crypto Book

How to Invest Safely in Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

By:
Siam Kidd

Narrated by:
Siam Kidd

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
45

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cryptocurrencies are the biggest opportunity of your lifetime, and the crypto gold rush is only just beginning.... Blockchain technology and the cryptocurrencies it enables are being described by some people as the biggest thing since the Internet, but very few people understand it or the opportunities it brings. Enter this down-to-earth guide to understanding what cryptocurrencies are, why it matters and how to make money from them.This book is for everyone who has heard of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and wants to learn more - and make money on the back of it.

5 out of 5 stars

The best book on Cryptos out at the moment .

By
Julian Diamond
on
04-10-18

The Creature from Jekyll Island

A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

By:
G. Edward Griffin

Narrated by:
Mark Bramhall

Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
123

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4.5 out of 5 stars
109

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
110

This classic expose of the Fed has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story - which it really is, but it's all true.

5 out of 5 stars

Hands down most compelling listen of 2017 !

By
Nathy
on
29-11-17

Analysis of Andreas M. Antonopoulos's Mastering Bitcoin by Milkyway

By:
Milkyway Media

Narrated by:
Sam Scholl

Length: 14 mins

Unabridged

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5 out of 5 stars
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Mastering Bitcoin (2015) by Andreas Antonopoulos is a rigorous introduction to the technologies and capabilities of the blockchain currency known as bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptographic currency. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

Zero to One

By:
Peter Thiel,
Blake Masters

Narrated by:
Blake Masters

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,310

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,131

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4.5 out of 5 stars
1,120

What valuable company is nobody building? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to 10, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from zero to one. This book is about how to get there.

5 out of 5 stars

Reality of starting a business

By
Ahmad
on
27-04-16

Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver

Protect Your Financial Future

By:
Michael Maloney,
Robert Kiyosaki - foreword

Narrated by:
Michael Maloney

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
48

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an updated version of the book that accurately predicted the global stock market crash of 2008, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and Ben Bernanke's unprecedented overreaction via quantitative easing programs. First published in 2008, the book quickly became a best seller not just for its timely insight into precious metals investment but for its amazingly accurate prediction of a "roller-coaster crash" - the manipulated whipsaw between inflation, deflation, and back again.

5 out of 5 stars

The Definitive book on precious metal investing

By
R S BURFORD
on
01-08-17

Market Wizards

Interviews with Top Traders

By:
Jack D. Schwager,
Bruce Kovner,
Richard Dennis,
and others

Narrated by:
Dj Holte

Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
205

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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4.5 out of 5 stars
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What separates the world's top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful investors? Jack Schwager sets out to answer this question in his interviews with superstar money-makers including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin, and more in
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely essential!

By
Dave Cassim
on
31-10-18

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by:
Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
327

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4.5 out of 5 stars
254

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
250

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition,
Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

1 out of 5 stars

Self righteous rambling

By
Ben Stubbens
on
21-02-17

Summary

While many books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin. Acclaimed information-security expert and author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines and contextualizes the significance of bitcoin through a series of essays spanning the exhilarating maturation of this technology.

Bitcoin, a technological breakthrough quietly introduced to the world in 2008, is transforming much more than finance. Bitcoin is disrupting antiquated industries to bring financial independence to billions worldwide. In this book, Andreas explains why bitcoin is a financial and technological evolution with potential far exceeding the label "digital currency."

Andreas goes beyond exploring the technical functioning of the bitcoin network by illuminating bitcoin's philosophical, social, and historical implications. As the Internet has essentially transformed how people around the world interact and has permanently impacted our lives in ways we never could have imagined, bitcoin - the Internet of money - is fundamentally changing our approach to solving social, political, and economic problems through decentralized technology.

Awesome

An awesome book with mind opening things. A must read/listen not only for the blockchain enthusiasts, but for all the people who want to understand the future that blockchain will definitely be influencing.

Really easy to listen to

A great way to hear about bitcoin's properties and capacities at a macro level. Some of the talks I had already watched on YouTube, and obviously we can't grasp Andreas' stage magic through an audiobook, but it's a great way to convey the message in a structured way.

A must read for anyone interested in blockchain

this is aust read (or listen) for anyone interested in blockchain technology. Andreas is probably the most liked perople in the Crypto world due to his passion and knowledge on the subject. in this book he conveys this knowledge in an easy to understand manner with limited jargon but with all the passion.

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Andrew

23-03-18

Very Disappointing

The book was very disappointing because it was not technical at all. Also, he kept using way too many examples to over-explain easy concepts. Hearing the word Bitcoin over and over again also tends to get annoying. All of the useful info in here could have been condensed to a 30 minute video, instead of a 5 hour audiobook.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

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Shah Alam

08-12-17

Needs Re-editing

Repetition is bad enough but having to pay for listening to repetition makes it worse.

This also happens to be the first book where I got the hear the chapter and para-numbers being narrated as “Chapter two-dot-four-dot-three”.

The theme is fine and the message that the crypto-currencies are the future with a huge potential could well be conveyed in less than an hour.

This book needs thorough re-editing.

7 of 8 people found this review helpful

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3 out of 5 stars

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Chad

30-11-17

Disjointed mishmash

Any additional comments?

What's the lazy way to create a book? Take recordings of various largely impromptu talks you give and slap them together into a disjointed mishmash. Some interesting ideas, but seriously, put in the effort to make an actual cohesive book.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

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21-05-17

Good rough summary of Bitcoin capabilities

The book is a good rough introduction to Bitcoin without getting bogged down in details of exactly how transactions and blocks work. There is educated speculation about the possible future implications of peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin). I would recommend this to someone who is curious but not necessarily familiar with information technology. For those familiar with Bitcoin already this book is a nice refresher and reminder about what the protocol is capable of and what it's future political implications may be.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

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A. M. Dalessandro

17-02-19

Not Really A Book, Just a Collection of Speeches

I suppose professors all over the country could do what Mr. Antonopoulos and his publishers have done here. Rather than actually write and publish a real book, they have taken bits and pieces of dozens of his speeches and cobbled them together to a collection of sorts. He says the same thing over and over again. I can't tell you how many times he called Bitcoin a "distruptive" technology and compared critics of the technology with those who laughed at the automobile as a potential replacement for the horse in the early 1900s.

He also likes to compare Bitcoin with the Internet, and mentions that now anyone can publish, not just a large newspaper with a huge printing press, like The New York Times. Of course the difference between the NYT and a guy writing on his computer in his bedroom or basement is that the NYT hires highly-skilled, highly-educated reporters, editors, photographers, analysts, programmers, and writers who comb the globe to determine what's happening in the world and why it matters. Perhaps it's great that some of this power is decentralized, but organizations like the NYT, The Economist, the BBC, and PBS are still the go-to media when you really want to know the news. They are just on the Internet now. I don't need Mr. Antonopoulos to explain this to me.

The first few chapters of the book are a review of the history of money and exchange that I got in middle school social studies class. I can't believe I paid money for this.

His entire method of trying to explain Bitcoin is to use analogies. I thought after listening to his book that I might better understand this technology, but I don't.

As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Antonopoulos could be described as the P.T. Barnum of Bitcoin, but that would be a disservice to Mr. Barnum, who, for all his showmanship and hyperbole, actually had something of value to sell.

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

R. Gonzalez

01-02-19

A blueprint for the future

Andreas is a prophet of Bitcoin and it’s potential to change the world. I’ve enjoyed hearing his thoughts and comparisons to past technological advancements, as it pertains to Bitcoin’s rise. I will now go onto Volume 2. Thank you Andreas for spreading the gospel

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Anonymous User

18-01-19

Amazing book

This book definitely help me understand Bitcoin more and how revolutionary this technology really is

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5 out of 5 stars

Wayne Hunsucker

11-10-18

Intense and Surprising

I don't know how many times I hit replay so I could hear again what he just said. The book is riveting and very difficult to understand. It turns out that what I thought Bitcoin was, isn't. When I accepted that we aren't talking about a coin; that I don't have a wallet but a keychain; that's when I began to see the sheer brilliance of it all.

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Anonymous User

27-09-18

Informative and Life-Changing

If you're going to read any book this year, this is the book. If you don't understand the concept of a blockchain and or cryptocurrency, this is the first book you should read. And, if you have a friend who doesn't understand the concept of cryptocurrency, forward this book to your friend for Christmas.

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ryan s

21-09-18

Everybody should listen to this.

this book is at must listen for every human being on Earth. blockchain technology will change the world forever.